I rest my case with Chris and Alan's advices. Do we still want to do 0.6 release to contain contributor's work? I am at crunch mode at work, and it would be helpful if someone could make a release of the out standing patches. Thanks
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:19 PM, "Alan D. Cabrera" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Chris Douglas wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <[email protected]> wrote: >>> This is one option for this project. More specifically, maybe we can move >>> the code base into Hadoop, if they're amenable to the idea. >> >> Feel free to ask, but becoming a Hadoop subproject again is not viable >> in my opinion. Nobody on the Hadoop PMC is knowledgeable about Chukwa >> and, frankly, that is unlikely to change; passing a release vote will >> be obnoxiously difficult. Hadoop cannot be an "umbrella" project and >> it cannot absorb all, most, or even many of the current, related >> incubator projects. The options for Chukwa are continued incubation or >> the attic. >> >> It's great to hear that it's being used, but its development community >> in Apache has shrunk since incubation began. We can't keep extending >> incubation unless we have some more activity, here. Apache isn't a >> hosting service; there are plenty of places that do a better job of >> that. >> >> We set some goals for Chukwa that are not satisfied. We can resurrect >> this project at the ASF if our optimism is well-founded and a >> community develops, but this incubation has run its course. -C > > What you say makes sense to me. > > I wonder if another option is Apache Labs. Eric could tinker around on it > there. Of course one cannot publish release but then you can't do that > either when the project is in the attic. > > > Regards, > Alan >
